I have been working with neuroscience in my whole academic career. Starting with neurotoxins biochemistry and pharmacology an then neurochemistry as an undergrad and master student, then realizing that the most powerful way to study neurotransmission is by means of electrophysiology, I  learned patch-clamp in my PhD, where I studied the pharmacology of calcium blocker toxins from the Armed Spider venon in neurons in culture. In my post-doc I switched to brain slices where I studied the famous Calyx of Held. From then in my laboratory in the FMRP I have been studying neurotransmission and neurophysiology in brain slices from rats and birds, with a focus in auditory neurons, but with projects using the hippocampus an the nucleus of the solitary tract. I try to combine eletrophysiology, with other techniques like immunocytoichemistry, molecular bioloy and behavioural and computational approaches, performed in the lab or with collaborations